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Sunday, 27 July 2014

NXTweet 24.07.14

I’ve said before that NXT is the best weekly wrestling
show available to wrestling fans. It features a good blend of high quality
matches, entertaining gimmicks, and promos. It doesn’t hurt that none of the
regulars who appear on the show have been around long enough to feel stale, or
for the writers to have lost interest in them.

It was the July 17 episode that made me want to revive NXTweet.
It was a particularly strong episode, featuring almost every major act in the
league in some form or other. The only one missing was Adrian Neville, and to
be honest I can handle skipping him for a week. I’d recommend that episode to
anyone who wants to get into NXT who isn’t a regular viewer (there have to be
some people in that position reading this, right?).

But that’s last week. This week’s show was good too.The only real disappointment was the
Charlotte versus Summer Rae Women’s title match, and that was mostly a letdown
because of how good both women have been over the last few months. They’ve
shown they can do better work than they did here. Perhaps we’ll get a rematch
that surpasses this. Hopefully they’ll have the metaphorical creases ironed out
before NXT’s next special event rolls around. I suspect they’ll be in a
three-way match also involving Sasha Banks there.

But as I say, everything else on this show was a good
watch. I don’t know how any wrestling fan could watch The Vaudevillains, Tyler
Breeze, Adrian Neville and Rusev and feel unfulfilled.

Intro

Tweet 1: Watching NXT. Prepare for some heavy tweet
flow...

Tweet 2: Opening video on the BFFs was good. How is it
that the NXT Divas are booked better, and are better in general, than the main
roster Divas?

The Ascension v
Jonny Vandal and Aaron Solow

Tweet 3: Best thing about the opener so far has been
Konor's no-sell of a weak chop.

Selling? Nope.

Tweet 4: Within NXT The Ascension are magnificent. I'm
not convinced they'll be treated so well on RAW.

Tweet 5: Also, more commentary team comparisons to The
Eliminators and The Road Warriors wouldn't go amiss.

Tyler Breeze v
Mojo Rawley

Tweet 6: Zoolander references during Breeze's intro. I
approve.

Tweet 7: I'm less keen on the furry phone cover.

Tweet 8: And I'm even less keen on Breeze facing Mojo
Rawley. He has the feel of a low card WCW guy from 1997.

Tweet 9: And and and... I'm also not keen on the Beauty
Shot still being a spinning heel kick. It should be a DDT or something.

Tweet 10: But hey, Breeze won. So thumbs up, yeah?!

NXT Women’s
championship – Charlotte (c) v Summer Rae

Tweet 11: Summer Rae wearing gold boots, Eddie G style.

Tweet 12: Not to be outdone Charlotte does a handstand
cartwheel thing and then slides into the ring like heel Nigel McGuinness.